Introduction: 'detestable introductions'; 1. Missing persons and model bodies: Victorian photographic figures; 2. Composing the novel body: re-membering the body and the text in Little Dorrit; 3. A model Jew: 'literary photography' and the Jewish body in Daniel Deronda; 4. Sexuality in the age of technological reproducibility: Wilde, identity, and photography; After-image: surviving the photograph; Select bibliography.
An illustrated study of the interactions between photographic technique and literary representation in the nineteenth century.
Daniel A. Novak is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University.
'… the strength of the book is in the way that it causes one to
think differently about what is 'typical' of Victorian photographic
practice and how its first subjects regarded it. Novak persuades
that the Victorian camera - like Facebook today - was an instrument
of fiction as much as fact, of abstraction as much as
personalisation, not the petrification of a 'frozen moment' but the
production of a technology as fluid as the writer's pen.'
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
'Novak's … achievement is to highlight a neglected vein of
nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, one that makes
sense of some of the most important yet eccentric masterpieces of
the era and positions them crucially as an alternative approach to
the question of realism.' Novel: A Forum on Fiction
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